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Maybe Michael Bush wasn't as productive as he wanted to be in his first season as a Bear, but the veteran running back's toughness shouldn't be in question as he prepares for the 2013 season. Bush, who was placed on injured reserve at the end of last season with a serious rib injury, told the Tribune he also played a good portion of the 2012 campaign with a fractured bone in his right shoulder. Bush suffered the injury in a Week 2 loss at Green Bay and endured the pain until he was placed on injured reserve with two games remaining because of rib-cartilage damage.

David Ragan doesn't win a lot of races. That's understandable, given the challenges of driving for one of the teams that isn't a NASCAR superpower. But he certainly has found his niche on the superspeedways, where Ragan has two Sprint Cup victories. The first came in the 2011 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona while he was driving for Roush Fenway Racing. He followed that up with a victory in May at Talladega, finishing 1-2 with his Front Row Motorsports teammate David Gilliland . But there's the flip side of the Daytona monster.

The horror comedy "100 Bloody Acres" spews viscera, blood and colloquialisms such as "wang-dang" and "pongy" all over the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, where the brothers Colin and Cameron Cairnes filmed this jaunty debut feature, a hit at the recent Slamdance adjunct of the Sundance Film Festival. It's a tale of two brothers, put-upon Reg (Damon Herriman) and his Lurch-like older sibling, Lindsay (Angus Sampson). Their regionally famous blood-and-bone fertilizer blend has worked wonders for the local farmers.

PARIS (Reuters) - French lawmakers on Tuesday diluted plans to make politicians declare their wealth and backed harsh penalties for journalists who publish the information, in an embarrassing setback for President Francois Hollande's transparency drive. Hollande's government, reeling from the resignation of a budget minister over a secret Swiss bank account, drafted a bill in April to force politicians to declare their assets, income and potential conflicts of interest to an independent authority.

Some are upset the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a proposed Farm Bill Thursday that would have lopped off more than $20 billion in food stamp funding over the next 10 years. But others see the legislative delay as an opportunity to, instead, improve the food stamp program (now called SNAP) with provisions to promote healthier eating. Earlier this week, a group of 18 big city mayors, including New York's Michael Bloomberg and Chicago's Rahm Emanuel, sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging them not to gut SNAP funding (which now goes to 47 million Americans)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A landmark immigration bill survived a major challenge in the Senate on Thursday when its bipartisan "Gang of Eight" sponsors beat back an amendment that would have delayed a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal residents. The proposal by Iowa Republican Charles Grassley would have prohibited a first step toward granting them legal status until the U.S. Department of Homeland Security "has maintained effective control" of the entire U.S.-Mexico border - 1,969 miles - for a period of six months.

MIAMI - Obviously annoyed by the relentless questions regarding Dwyane Wade's ailing right knee, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra defended his star guard while shifting the focus to another aspect: teamwork. Wade, noticeably hobbled by a bruised right knee, has averaged just 11.3 points per game in the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Bulls. Wade, who averaged 21.2 points during the regular season, currently is the team's fourth-leading scorer in the playoffs at 12.3 points per game behind league-MVP LeBron James (24.1)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Circle the date, market mavens: April 29, 2013. AKA, the day the bond bull died. Age 31 years, 7 months. That, at least, is the call from Bill Gross, who is known on Wall Street as "the Bond King. " Gross, the manager of the world's largest bond fund, the Pimco Total Return Fund, with $289 billion in fixed-income assets, set the Wall Street Twittersphere alight early Friday with this 62-character missive: "The secular 30-yr bull market in bonds likely ended 4/29/2013.

Nate Robinson's hands gripped his scalp. His elbows rested on his knees as Robinson sat at his locker for several minutes just staring at the ground. Yes, Robinson felt sick late Thursday after the Bulls' 95-92 loss to the Nets - and it only had a little to do with the Bulls guard spending parts of the game vomiting into a bucket on the bench. "I'm more disappointed about the loss - I'll be OK," said Robinson, who persevered for 18 points in 42 minutes despite being ill. "A couple of times I had to throw up during the game, but I didn't know if they'd call a foul on me if I threw up on Deron Williams.